“There needs to be some accountability for all of these people that were making these fantastic estimates,” Mark Parkinson said.
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We must be smart about social distancing, Birx urges
"We've learned a lot about this virus. But we now need to translate that learning into real changed behavior."
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Karnataka-origin Lingayat seer, aide murdered in Maharashtra: No communal angle, say cops
Police said according to preliminary investigation, robbery was the motive of the crime. The accused has been arrested.
Karnataka-origin Lingayat seer Shivacharya Nirvanarudra Pashupatinath Maharaj residing in his ashram in Nagthana in Maharashtra's Nanded district, and his associate Bhagwan Shinde, were murdered on Sunday morning. According to preliminary investigation, robbery was the motive of the crime, the police said. They have arrested the accused. “The accused had stolen cash, a laptop and other valuables of the seer. He was trying to flee with the seer’s car as well. So here there is a clear cut motive of economic gain. He hails from the same village. He was seen by an ashram security guard when he was leaving in the seer’s car,” District Superintendent of Police Vijaykumar Magar told TNM. The accused has been identified as Sainath Lingare (25) and has a 10-year-old murder case against his name as well. “He was a juvenile at that time when he was charged for murder. So far there is no communal angle or any rivalry involved as per our investigations. At the time of arrest, Rs 40,000 in cash was recovered from him,” the SP said. PTI reported that he was held a few hours later from Tanur police station limits within the vicinity along the Telangana state border. The murder took place around 4 am in Nagthana under Umri police station limits. "There is a possibility Sainath and Shinde met each other at a Zilla Parishad school some 750 metres away from the ashram where the deceased sadhu stayed. Sainath killed Shinde first, kept his body in a bathroom, and then went to where the sadhu resided, killed him," the SP told PTI. He kept the body of the sadhu in the car and tried to escape but the vehicle crashed into the gate of the ashram, which woke up residents nearby, the SP said. "As the residents came out, in the melee, the accused fled on a two-wheeler. The body of the sadhu was found in the car," the SP said. He said evidence of substance abuse by the accused has also been found near the ZP school. It may be recalled that Maharashtra had made news after two seers and their associates were killed in Palghar. Investigations in that case too found no communal angle.
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COVID-19 cases in Karnataka cross 2,000, more travelers from Maharashtra test positive
The number of active cases in the state is 1,391 and the deaths reported so far is 42, including 2 for non-COVID reasons.
With 130 new cases, Karnataka's COVID-19 tally crossed the 2,000-mark on Sunday. Most new cases reported have interstate travel history with 97 coming from Maharashtra. The number of active cases in the state is 1,391 and the deaths reported so far is 42, including 2 for non-COVID reasons. "Ninety seven of the 130 new patients are returnees from Maharashtra, the worst affected state in the country with 47,190 cases till Saturday," said a state health official. "The total number of C)VID-19 cases across the state is 2,089, with 130 more testing positive in the past 18 hours," said the official. Forty six patients were discharged from hospitals on Sunday taking the number of cured persons to 634. Of the 46 discharged, 18 are in Davanagere, 20 in Uttara Kannada, 4 in Chitradurga, 3 in Bagalakote and one in Haveri. Of the 30 Karnataka districts, Chikkaballapura recorded the highest cases on Sunday at 27, followed by Yadgir (24), Udupi (23), Mandya (15) and Hassan (14). Chikkaballapura is the home district of Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar, a doctor by profession, who is spearheading the fight against the pandemic. On Saturday, the state's tally shot up to 1,959 due to 196 new cases, the highest single-day rise, with 195 of them crossing over from Maharashtra through the inter-state border, which was opened up as part of partial relaxation of the lockdown. The Karnataka government has imposed institutional quarantine on persons traveling in from outside the state, particularly by flight from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh.
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Saffron flags installed on shops in Bengaluru: 5 complaints filed, no FIR yet
The complaints point to social media posts which say that only certain shops owned by members of the majority community were being marked.
The Bengaluru police have received at least five complaints against a right-wing Hindu group for allegedly raising saffron flags at shops in the Vijaynagar market area in the city. The complaints point to social media posts which say that only certain shops owned by members of the majority community were being marked. The police have not filed a first information report (FIR) over this. On May 18, members of a pro-Hindu group installed saffron flags on shops in the area. A video of the incident, too, had surfaced on social media. After some of the flags were removed over the next two days, the members of the Hindu group returned two days later to tie saffron flags again on pushcarts and shops in the area. Following this, residents and advocates filed five separate complaints at Vijayanagar police station, highlighting social media posts stating that shops were being marked along religious lines in an attempt to communalise the area. "They tied saffron flags to pushcarts of street vendors and shops. This was done when the shops were closed and no one was around. Some of us removed the flags but they returned to place the flags back two days later," Manjanna, a street vendor who sells vegetables in the market, told TNM. "We were trying to re-start our business after the lockdown when this happened," Manjanna added. ML Shivakumar Gowda, a Bajrang Dal leader who led the move to raise flags, had uploaded a video of the act on social media. "A few miscreants have deliberately removed the flags that were tied to the shops of all Hindus in Vijayanagara on Monday (May 18). We have once again tied the flags," he said in a social media post. "We asked shop owners and vendors to voluntarily put up the Bhagwa Dhwaja (saffron flags) and many have done so. It is not against any rule to do that," Harsha Muthalik, a member of the Bajrang Dal says. Two street vendor associations — Bengaluru Jilla Beedhi Vyapari Sanghatanegala Okkuta and Vijayanagar Street Foods and Vegetable Vendors Welfare Association — filed complaints at the Vijayanagar police station against what they described as attempts to communalise the market area. Additionally, advocate Maitreyi Krishnan of the All India People's Forum, Sindhu Rao, resident of the area and activist Gowri of the Karnataka Janashakti Organisation, too, filed complaints at the police station. Speaking to TNM, Gopi Naidu of the Street Foods and Vegetable Vendors Welfare Association, said that the market has maintained communal harmony since it was started in the 1980s. "There is no overt communalisation of the market area in Vijaynagar. We are a community that celebrates all religions," he says. Although officials of the Vijayanagar police station have given an acknowledgement of the complaint filed on Saturday, they are yet to register an FIR. Ramesh Bhanot, Bengaluru (West) Deputy Commissioner of Police, told TNM, "We have written to BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) to check if any permission was taken to raise the flags. In some cases, the shop owners said that they have raised the flags and some other shop owners said that they have not raised flags and found it when they came to the shop. Some of the flags are even raised in public places and we are verifying the details of this.”
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Karnataka’s coronavirus positivity rate is 1% – much lower than India’s average of 5%
Karnataka has eight districts which have more than 1.5% positivity for coronavirus with Mandya faring the worst at 2.6%
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Karnataka has a coronavirus positivity rate of 1% – meaning 1 out of every 100 people tested is positive for the virus. This is much lower than India’s average of 5%, according to comparative analysis by the state’s COVID-19 War Room. Maharashtra fares worst with 14% positivity rate, followed by Telangana and Madhya Pradesh at 9% each. Neighbouring Tamil Nadu also has a positivity rate of 9%. As of Friday (May 22), Karnataka has carried out around 1,99,000 tests, which amounts to 3,248 tests per million. With this Karnataka has the third highest testing rate in the country per million among large states, as compiled by the state War Room. Comparing district-wise, Karnataka has eight districts which have more than 1.5% positivity with Mandya faring the worst with 2.6% testing positive out of total 9,500 tests. Davangere (2.5% out of 4,900), Udupi, (1.9% out of 28,000), Yadgir (1.7% out of 5,200), Hassan (1.6% out of 5,400) are other badly affected districts. Incidentally Mandya has the second highest number of cases in the state at 237, while Bengaluru has 265. Majority of Mandya’s cases are returnees from Maharashtra. The same data table shows Bengaluru has the highest testing numbers at 25,700, while Kalaburagi has done 15,300 tests. But considering the test per million population, Kalaburagi has the highest with 5,969 people tested per million population while Bengaluru has 2,667 tests per million population. Delhi has 9,852 tests per million while neighboring Andhra Pradesh has 5,909 tests per million people at the top. India as a whole has 1,948 tests per million population as of Sunday afternoon. Speaking on this, Dr CN Manjunath, nodal officer of COVID-19 testing in Karnataka said, “Testing measures in Karnataka have increased immensely. As of April 14, only around 500 tests were being done per day. However, today we have 60 labs in the state and there are around 10,000-11,000 tests being done on a daily basis.” He added, “Karnataka has tested approximately 2 lakh people, out of which about 1% have tested positive. In March, the cases we saw were mostly international travelers and their contacts, but now we are seeing a lot of migrants being the primary source of infection. We do have institutional quarantine facilities in place, but as this space begins to fill up, we will need other options. It is ideal that those at risk must isolate themselves in their homes, regardless of quarantine facilities.” With regards to asymptomatic individuals, in containment zones and hotspots, he said the government machinery is ensuring that testing of all primary contacts is being done and the situation is continuously being assessed so that testing can be increased for these persons if needed. The highest number of tests done in a single day so far across the state was 12,229 (Friday) as the state had announced that it will conduct 10,000 tests daily by the end of the month. *All data tables as published by Karnataka COVID-19 War Room
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Karnataka courts to resume limited functioning from June 1
A Standard Operating Procedure for the functioning of courts will be issued on May 26.
The High Court, district courts and trial courts across Karnataka will commence limited functioning from June 1, said the Karnataka High Court. A Standard Operating Procedure for the functioning of courts will be issued on May 26, a notification issued by the High Court on Saturday stated. The SOP will be published on the official website of the High Court. On Tuesday, the senior judges of the High Court will convene a meeting via video-conference with the office bearers of bar associations in the state and urged the members of the bar to send queries on the SoP issued by the High Court to the Registrar General of the High Court by 11 am on May 27. On March 19, the Karnataka High Court stopped the entry of litigants in courts across the state following the outbreak of coronavirus cases in India. Following this, judicial proceedings in the courts were held for half a day and only cases of 'extreme urgency' were taken up for hearing. This move was aimed at restricting the number of lawyers and litigants arriving in the court. The sittings in the High Court’s three benches at Bengaluru, Dharward and Kalaburagi were held from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm and a lesser number of benches were active during the lockdown period. Courts, however, have remained functional in the state and the Karnataka High Court, in particular, was praised for its intervention on the issue of migrant workers in Karnataka. Following the High Court's decision to ask for clarity from the Karnataka Labour Secretary and Chief Secretary about making migrant workers pay for train fares, the Karnataka government decided to pay the train fares of migrant workers leaving the state. Karnataka has so far reported 1,959 coronavirus cases, including 216 on Saturday, the highest single-day spike recorded so far. However, since most of the new cases are returnees from other states, officials are confident that it will not lead to a fresh wave of cases since those returning from other states are quarantined in hotels before being shifted to designated hospitals after the test results arrive.
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